By Mario Ritter 2009-11-26 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This year, Junior Achievement marks its ninetieth anniversary of educating young people about business and economics. The nonprofit organization is the largest of its kind....

By June Simms 2009-11-25 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A new report says the number of foreign students in the United States reached a record high in two thousand eight. More than six hundred seventy thousand international student...

By Caty Weaver 2009-11-24 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Sometimes new health advice conflicts with old advice. Yet new guidelines last week for breast cancer testing in the United States created a storm of debate. The advice came fro...

By Kim Varzi 2009-11-24 VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about more hip-hop music artists who are spreading their messages around the world. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Hip-h...

By Jerilyn Watson 2009-11-23 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Years ago, a young forester took an unusual new job. Earl Cooley became one of the first smokejumpers. Smokejumpers parachute from airplanes. They fight fires that crews...

By June Simms, Jerilyn Watson and Caty Weaver 2009-11-23 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And, I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about efforts against the H1N1 virus, often called swi...

By June Simms 2009-11-22 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at the World Summit on Food Security Last week, the United Nations held a World Summit on Food Security. But the three-da...

By Caty Weaver 2009-11-22 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA. I'm Faith Lapidus. This Thursday is a day for families and friends to share a special holiday meal and think about what they are thankful for. This week on our program, we ask some peop...

By June Simms 2009-11-18 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. College enrollment has reached an all-time high in the United States. About forty percent of all eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds -- or almost eleven and a half million -- w...

By Frank Beardsley 2009-11-18 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen sixty-three, Union forces defeated Confederate forces in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War -- the Battle of Gettysbur...